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What happens when the woke takeover of the SFS is finally complete and emacs is re-licensed under a new social justice license where you can only use it if you
by buzzkillington 6y ago
What happens when the woke takeover of the SFS is finally complete and emacs is re-licensed under a new social justice license where you can only use it if you don't oppress minorities?
I don't trust the FSF further than I can throw them and I don't trust them with my copyrights.
- blihp 6y agoAgreed... that was my point. Specifically, it doesn't matter who takes over or what the changes are, only that direction/priorities may change and be inconsistent with the intent of the original contributor.
- masoudd 6y agoThat's when we fork emacs with the GPL license. You can't retroactively change the license to the code you published as GPL before
- coffeecat 6y agoWouldn't all previous releases be fork-able under the terms of the current GPL in that case?
- _-david-_ 6y agoYes but it would potentially split the community.
- downerending 6y agoThe existing code cannot just be "re-licensed". It's true that they might decide to make future versions available only under some weird license, but that wouldn't cause prior contributions to become unavailable. Continuing the code line under the original license would always be possible, given effort.